Date: 2024

"I wish I could explain to him that I don't want to think about her any more, but thinking about her is not a choice; that--even though Jen is no longer in my physical life--the room inside my mind that has been occupied by her for the last four years still exists. I want to convert it to a home ...

— Dolly Alderton (b. 1988)

Date: 2024

"Sometimes I wake up and the first thing I think of if Jen, and I imagine the tiny version of her in a doll's house bedroom in my brain and I'm comforted by Imaginary Jen who wants to keep my company for a little bit longer."

— Dolly Alderton (b. 1988)

Date: April 29, 2024

"Merleau-Ponty is a deep influence; one can feel him tumbling around in the back seat of much of Butler’s thinking."

— Parul Sehgal (b.1981)

Date: May 22, 2024

"It’s not easy to stay away from drugs once your body has a substance abuse disorder. The pump is primed. The brain wiring has been rewired."

— Jenna Portnoy and Dan Keating

Date: July 26, 2024

"From the Very Stable Genius’s jumbled mind tumbled conspiratorial thoughts."

— Dana Milbank (b. April 27, 1968)

There may by "Distempers and Uneasinesses either of Body of Mind"

"Were it so with the soul (as some Philosophers have vainly imagined) to come into the world as an ab rasa tabula, a mere blank or piece of white paper, on which neither any thing written, nor any blots; it would then be equally receptive of good and evil, and no more averse to the ...

If one weighs crowns and kingdoms against deeds they may "Far, far too light in Wisdom's eye" may seem--"Nor shake the scale, while Reason holds the beam

"All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of...

"The soften'd heart, prepar'd to take / Whate'er impressions Love shall make."